{"id":116738,"date":"2024-12-04T18:19:04","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T15:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/116738\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:40:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:40:57","slug":"armenia-csto-relations-have-passed-point-of-no-return-pashinyan","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/116738\/","title":{"rendered":"Armenia-CSTO relations beyond “point of no return” \u2013 Pashinyan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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December 4, Pozirk.<\/em><\/strong> Armenia does not veto the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) decisions because it considers itself outside this alliance and does not participate in its work, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaking in parliament, Pashinyan stressed that Armenia’s return to the CSTO is becoming “increasingly difficult, if not impossible” and that the parties have already “gone beyond the point of no return,” TASS<\/em> reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yerevan suspended its participation not because of Azerbaijan’s capture of Nagorno-Karabakh, but because the CSTO failed to address “external aggression at the borders of sovereign Armenia in 2021 and 2022,” he said in an apparent reference to border clashes in November 2021 and September 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The CSTO comprises Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan. Yerevan has already skipped two CSTO summits: in November 2023 in Minsk and in November 2024 in Astana. It also ignores other events within the organization, accusing its individual members of “planning a war” against Armenia together with Azerbaijan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the Global Armenian Summit in Yerevan on September 18, Pashinyan declared that the CSTO poses a threat to Armenia’s existence, sovereignty and statehood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yerevan has strained relations with Minsk. In June 2024, Pashinyan stated that neither he nor any other Armenian official would travel to Belarus as long as Alaksandar \u0141uka\u0161enka was in power. The head of the Armenian government said that in connection with \u0141uka\u0161enka’s remarks supportive of Azerbaijan at a meeting with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev in mid-May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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